Kim Cattrall on Sex and The City.Photo: Hbo/Darren Star Productions/Kobal/Shutterstock
“@KimCattrall I am such a fan. With the #SATCreboot happening, they keep bringing you up. I applaud you for making choices that are right for you. You are not required to do anything you don’t want to do or that won’t make you happy,” one fanwrote. “Looking forward to you on #QAFhappy holidays!”
“And just like that… I want to rewatch the 2014 HBO Canada prestige Toronto-set dramedySensitive Skinstarring Kim Cattrall,” another followertweeted.
“And just like that… I find myself only wanting to watch anything @KimCattrall is in. This is a Kim appreciation tweet,” someonepostedwith a GIF of Cattrall in the Fox dramaFilthy Rich. The showwas cancelledlast year after one season.
“Kim Cattrall didn’t return toSATCbecause her scatting career is finally taking off,” another fan jokinglywrote, referring the now infamousvideoof Cattrall scat-singing while her then-husband Mark Levinson played the upright bass.
Cattrall is working overtime with upcoming projects,having recently been castas theBob Sagetvoiceover counterpart in CBS’s gender-flippedHow I Met Your Motherspin-off,How I Met Your Father. She will narrate as the future version of leading ladyHilary Duff’s character Sophie. Cattrall hasalso joined the castof the New Orleans-set Peacock reboot ofQueer as Folk.
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The first two episodes ofAJLTpremiered this week on HBO Max,wasting no time in explaining the absenceof Cattrall’s iconic character Samantha Jones, a high-powered publicist with a healthy sex life and the best one-liners. Within minutes of the premiere, the show explained that Sam had moved to London for work, later revealing that her “pride got damaged” after Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) had to let her go as a publicist due to the state of the publishing business.
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Cattrall has long maintained that shewould never return to the franchise,citing tension with her costars. Parker, 56, has consistentlyshot down any suggestion of a feudbetween herself and Cattrall.
“I’m lucky enough to have choice, not that I haven’t worked for it, but I have it,” Cattrallexplained of her decision on theWomen’s Prize for Fictionpodcastin December 2020. “It’s something I feel very lucky to have and I’m very protective of it. I wouldn’t be any good doing something that I really didn’t want to do.”
The new 10-part series follows Carrie, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) “as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s,” according to a logline.
Parker, Nixon, 55, and Davis, 56,officially announced theSex and the Cityrevivalon Instagram in January. Along with Cattrall, they starred in the original HBO series, which ran for six seasons from 1998 to 2004, before returning for twoSex and the Cityfeature films in 2008 and 2010.
source: people.com
